I just don't understand what happened to our people.
How did we become so morally weak and feckless?
Anybody who went there to fight for the Islamic State has no place in our society. They are our enemies. Not people to be re-integrated. I don't care who this is. I don't care if this is some cute young woman who is putting on the crying act and playing victim.
Look at this:
Most returned European fighters never see the inside of a courtroom for one frightening reason: nobody really knows what they did abroad. Some jihadis are obsessively discreet, even halting communication with their parents. Others, like Delefortrie, broadcast their exploits online, but that may not always provide enough evidence for a courtroom. Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, a former executive director of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service and the current director of the Institute for Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College, told me the bar for what qualifies as “intelligence” is, “for good reason, lower than the bar you have to pass when you prosecute in a court of law.” “Is it sufficient” evidence for a courtroom, Dalgaard-Nielsen asked, “that someone is posting on social media, in camo fatigues and with weapons, claiming that he joined a terrorist group?”
Dalgaard-Nielsen posited that this was not sufficient, particularly since the stakes for Denmark’s first case against an alleged jihadi returning from Syria will be very high. A successful prosecution could deter others from leaving for ISIS territory, while a failed prosecution could give would-be fighters a sense of impunity. “That’s the kind of calculation you have to make,” she said. “How likely you are to succeed, and what kind of signals would that send if you fail.” In June, Denmark appointed a new Minister of Justice, Søren Pind. He promptly announced the creation of a new task force to “optimize the possibilities of prosecuting” returned fighters, calling the current pattern “offensive.” No doubt many Syrian and Iraqi civilians would agree.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... s-fighters
They are treating this like a civil crime.
These people are enemy combatants. Hello??
Europeans produced men like Jan Sobieksi once.
